Tiered PBIS Framework

Educators and practitioners provide a continuum of academic, behavioral, social, and emotional support matched to students’ needs. We describe this continuum across three tiers of support.

Foundational systems across all three tiers include:

• A shared vision for a positive school social culture

• A representative leadership team that meets regularly and shares expertise in coaching, social, emotional, behavioral, academic, equity, mental health, physical health, wellness, and trauma  

• Families are actively engaged‍

• A supportive and involved school administration

• On-going access to professional development for preparing all staff to implement each tier of PBIS

• Systematic collection of screening, progress-monitoring, outcome, and fidelity data

• Ongoing use of data for decision making

• Disaggregating data to examine equity among student subgroups